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A method is disclosed that uses an XML schema to express preferences of any digital device and stores these preferences on a portable medium.

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English (United States)

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Transferable Digital Media Meta-Data

Digital media devices (ie. DVD players, cameras, computers) each have their own idea of 'user
preferences' and some devices such as DVD players disallow setting of playback preferences at all.
Once you have recorded onto the media device (DVD, memory card, etc.), the order in which that data is
displayed or retrieved by default cannot be changed. Your only option is to overwrite the old data with the
new, pre-ordered data.

Another drawback to user preferences being non-standard (each digital device has it's own idea and the
preferences are stored on the device itself) is the inefficient transfer of a user's preferences to a similar,
but different device. For example, if you want to view scenes of a DVD in the order of 1, 3, 2 on one DVD
player for a particular DVD, you would have to program in your preference for that DVD on every player in
which you place that DVD. An easier transfer of user preferences would be ideal for this scenario as well
as many others.

The solution will utilize a small, portable, non-volatile storage medium to store meta-data based on a
schema. This medium will interface with various digital devices based on a Universal Serial Bus
connection, PCI connection, or Bluetooth wireless connection (requires mimimum hardware changes to
OEMs). Since the meta-data stored on the medium is based on a standard schema, hardware vendors
can develop a custom graphical user interface to allow the user to adjust their preferences that pertain to
the device in use. Bluetooth connectivity would allow for users to push portions of their meta-data to other
users directly with a very small data push interface on the storage device itself.

The schema allows devices to define any number of configurations that are common between all devices
of that type, and allows vendors to override any of those configurations if needed.